Fig. 1: Characterization of microparticles processed by the 5-second pulse-rest method.

A Histogram showing the distribution of the percent of total microparticle area and percent of microparticle count. Area percent is the summed area of the microparticles in each bin, and count percent is the number of microparticles in each bin, each expressed as percentages of the total area/count. The average ± standard deviation of microparticle area was 6529 ± 6025 µm2 (n = 4). B Representative image of the microparticles (scale bar = 500 μm).